Category: Security News

CyberThreats Daily: Your smartphone might be giving away more info than you really want to share

April 14, 2011

A camera with a GPS facility can store coordinates information in the header of each photograph taken, if the facility is enabled. You can harvest information about someone’s location at the time a picture was taken that you can build on to establish a bigger picture of their movements and activities. Of course, there are … More CyberThreats Daily: Your smartphone might be giving away more info than you really want to share

CyberThreats Daily: Texas breach affects millions of state employees and retirees

April 13, 2011

The names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers of approximately 3.5 million individuals were posted to a public FTP server used to transfer files, the Texas comptroller’s office said Monday. The  comptroller’s office will begin notifying millions of state employees and retirees that their unencrypted personal data was … More CyberThreats Daily: Texas breach affects millions of state employees and retirees

CyberThreats Daily: Who is watching your Facebook profile?

April 11, 2011

People’s curiosity usually get’s the better of them, but Facebook doesn’t enable you to know who is actually watching your profile. So whenever these messages appear, you should know that the only ones watching your profile with such apps are the cybercriminals. To activate this, you must usually make your profile entirely visible to the … More CyberThreats Daily: Who is watching your Facebook profile?

CyberThreats Daily: The Top Ten Commandments of Password Protection

April 8, 2011

Protecting your passwords is a vital component of keeping your online accounts safe and secure. Careless users often find themselves the victim of email or Facebook hacks.  Armed with the right information, it only takes a few moments to properly secure your email accounts, social networking profiles and sensitive, web based logins. The nice people at Facecrooks have … More CyberThreats Daily: The Top Ten Commandments of Password Protection

CyberThreats Daily: A look at the inner workings of cybercrime

April 7, 2011

Malware authors have grown very attached to the idea of subverting legitimate business models for illegal purposes. Our Russian colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov described how the DogmaMillions cybercrime group distributed a rootkit using a pay per install scheme. DogmaMillions group seems to have been somewhat uncomfortable with the copious attention it received last … More CyberThreats Daily: A look at the inner workings of cybercrime